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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ealing 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1918.
BOROUGH OF EALING.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in Each Ward. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At Ages—Years. | Drayton Ward. | Castlebar Ward. | Mount Park Ward. | LammasWard. | Manor Ward. | Orange Ward. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 andupwards | |||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 36 | 1 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 4 | — | — | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 28 |
| Erysipelas | 24 | — | — | — | 11 | 8 | 5 | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 61 | — | 11 | 41 | 6 | 3 | — | 6 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 9 | 43 | |
| Enteric Fever | 6 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | i | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | —_ | — | — | 1 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | - | — | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 110 | — | 1 | 9 | 31 | 50 | 18 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 32 | 34 | 15 | — |
| Other form of Tuberculosis | 22 | — | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | — | |
| Measles | 1048 | 16 | 389 | 566 | 51 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 191 | 177 | 195 | 218 | 150 | 9 |
| German Measles | 143 | 4 | 25 | 79 | 23 | 9 | 3 | — | 17 | 39 | 28 | 27 | 12 | 20 | — |
| Totals | 1456 | 24 | 442 | 726 | 129 | 104 | 29 | 2 | 169 | 264 | 220 | 293 | 303 | 207 | 84 |
Ealing Isolation Hospital, South Ealing.